Principals who have active and personal experience of social media are far more likely to be strong advocates for its educational potential, and for e-learning in general.

Many principals believe that there are possibilities within social media – but their schools do not have a strategy for its use.

The report recommends three key actions:

Greater active involvement in social networking is required for school leaders – and sites like EdWeb, ASCD Community and Google for Educators can provide a context that offers obvious benefits quite quickly if Facebook and Twitter don’t strike immediate chords.

Models of good practice are needed to show the potential of social networking in education

School policies need to be more effective and based on real-world contexts. They should extend beyond whether sites should be blocked to incorporate students and community in authentic digital citizenship conversations.

Schools look to their leaders for guidance and inspiration. What are they seeing at the moment?

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Hi Karen
It appears the link to the report in your post is broken. Thank you for a very interesting article which I d like to share: the point it makes is indeed very valid. The classroom teacher is constantly reminded to venture outside his/her confort zone, get a PLN, acquire and master digital literacies… so that the students can be motivated and have “guidance and inspiration”, it s high time school leaders walked the talk!